"Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility"

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Source : Naomi Novik (2006). “His Majesty's Dragon: A Novel of Temeraire”, p.299, Del Rey

Naomi Novik

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